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I \ only fpcwk tluis much, that yovi may perceive, I had time enough j 

 I t>>!ninrf)ve mvjeif-, in the knoxvledge of the management oiaPlan-j 

 I tarion of this bulk and therefore, yoa may give the more credit in 

 I u hat li\m to lay, concerning the proht and value of this Plantation , I 

 vrhsch lintcndasaScaie, for thofe that go upon the like 5 or to vary ! 

 it to 9;rcater or iefs proportions, at their pleafure. And indeed J wanted ! 

 notutridge, in the learning this myfterie , for, to do him right, 1 hold ! 

 Co]\on'ci /ili/d^ford as able, to undertake and perform fjch a charge, as \ 

 any I know* Av,d therefore I mip;ht (according to my ability) be able i 

 to fliy (bmething, which I wiU^ as briefly as I can-, deliver to you^ in fiich j 

 plain language as 1 have. \ 

 But before I come to lay any thing of thelfland, as it Vv'as when I J 

 arrived there, i will beg leave, to deliver you a word or two , what ] 

 hath been toid me by the moft ancient Planters, that we found there , | 

 and v/hat they had by { r idition fi-om their PredeceTors. For^ few or j 

 none of them that firft let foot there, were now living. . § 

 About the year a Ship of Sir iVilliam r«r/fc;;x,returning j 



ft^tnFer}Tamboc.k\n Jir.t'?/, ' being driven by foul weather upon this! 

 coaft^chancd to fall upon this Uland, which is not tar out of the way^ 1 

 being the rriofl windwafdly Kland of all the Caribbies.j^Tobago only ex- ] 

 cepted;) and Anchoring before it, ftayed fome time, to inform! 

 thcmlelvcs'ofthe nature of the places which they found by tryals in j 

 leveral parts,' to be fo overgrown with Wood, as there could be I 

 found no Champions, or SUvanna^ for men to dsveli in 5 nor found | 

 they any beafrs to inhabit there, only Hogs, and thofe in abundance : | 

 the /'<'r/?/'^ z/r having long before, put fome afhoar for breed ^ in cafe 1 

 theyfhou'ldat any time be driven by foul Vv^eather, to be caft upon | 

 the lOdndj th<^y might there findfreifh meat, to fcrve them upon fuch j 

 an extremity : And the fruits and roots that grew therCjafForded them | 

 fo great plenty of food , as they multiplyed abundantly. So that the j 

 Natives of the leevv^ard Iflands, that were at the diftance of fight, com- j 

 ing thither in ^^^ViCanrioas ^ and V^tiagos , and finding fuch Game to j 

 hunt, as thefe hogs, and the flefh fo fweet and excellent in tafte , they 

 came often thither a hunting , and ftayed fometimes a month toge- | 

 ther, and fb returned again at pleafure, leaving behind them certain | 

 tokens of their being there , which were , Pots , of feveral fizes , in j 

 which they boyled their meat, made of clay, fo finely tempered, and j 

 turned with fuch art, as I have not feen any like them, for finenefs of I 

 mettle, and curiofity of turning, in England, This information I re- 1 

 ceived from the Planters in Barbadoei. But being here a Prifoner, in { 

 theVppe}' Bench Prifon, my chance was to meet with an ancient Cap- 

 tain, and one of thofe that firft landed on the Ifland 5 and had the ma- 

 naging of a good part of theliknd, under William late Earl of Pem^ 

 brooks before my Lord ofC^?r/7/7ebegg'ditofKing jF^^/e/.This Captain 

 Canon (torfo was his name) ) informed me for certain, that this was 

 a grofs miftake in the Planters, and that no Indians ever came there : 

 But thofe Pots v/ere brought by the Ne^r(?e/ , which they fetcht from 

 and fome other parts of Africa 5 and that he had feen them 

 make of them at Angola, with the grcateftart that may be. Though 

 I am willing to believe this Captain , who delivered upon his know= 

 ledge, that the A^e^ri^fi- brought fome Pots thither, and very finely and 

 artificially made 5 yet, it does not hinder any man from believing j 



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